Snakes Alive

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Snakes Alive

An Idaho couple's fixer-upper turned out to be more snake pit than money pit. Turns out Lyman and Jeanine Hepworth's recently purchased chunk of surreal estate doubles as a winter snake sanctuary, where reptiles gather to hibernate during the winter. "When it warmed up, we walked onto the yard and the whole yard moved," Jeanine told the Standard Journal of Rexburg, Idaho. The snakes – most likely terrestrial garters – took over the place and, because it's illegal to kill them, the Hepworths are stuck paying the mortgage on creepy-crawly accommodations they can't move into. Instead, they're seeking reptile relief from a TV show, Extreme Home Makeover. Guess nobody told 'em about the snakes in the showbiz industry.